Female Medical Students' Interest in Radiology Careers

Roubidoux, Marilyn A.; Packer, Marie; Applegate, Kimberly E.; Aben, Gerald R.

doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2008.11.014

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“…[13] In the current study, male students more agreed than female students that the work environment in Radiology field being the opposite of an ER settings affected their decision and the income affected decision of choosing future career whereas more female students compared to male students agreed that the limitation of private clinics work has affected their decision, considered the limitation of on-call hours as a factor to making their decision, and the exposure to Radiation played a role in making their decision. This is consistent with past work [15,16] indicating that women are more relationship-oriented than men.…”

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The Effect of Gender on Choosing Radiology as a Career Among Medical Students and Interns in Saudi Arabia.

Talal¹,

Sarah²,

Amnah³

et al. 2016

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Background:-In regards to radiology, according to recent statistics and studies, the numbers of male radiologists actively involved in the specialty have always been greater compared to female radiologists in international institutions worldwide. Objectives:-To determine whether there is a difference between males and females in choosing Radiology as a career choice in Saudi Arabia and the reasons behind making the decision. Materials and methods:-A cross-sectional study was carried out. A questionnaire was formed and established electronically on https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/radiologycareer. The questionnaire was anonymous and targeted medical students and interns in all universities in Saudi Arabia. And they asked about factors contributed on choosing radiology as a career. The results were stratified by gender. Results:-The study included 404 students. A 46.8% of male students compared to 16.3% of female will choose Radiology as a future career, p<0.001. More than one quarter of male students (26.6%) compared to 17.9% of female students reported that, Radiology as being not a surgical specialty had affected their decision. The difference was statistically significant, p=0.037. Exactly half of female students compared to only 5.7% of male students agreed that the social life in Saudi Arabia played a role in making their decision in career choosing. About two-thirds of female students (65.9%) compared to 41.4% of male students considered the limitation of oncall hours as a factor to making their decision, p<0.001. Similarly, 63.4% of female students and 28.5% of male students considered the exposure to Radiation played a role in making their decision, p<0.001. For females, considering future pregnancy has affected decision was reported by 64.6% of them. Conclusion:-There is a significant difference between male and female medical students in choosing Radiology as a future career. They differed somewhat in the importance they put on about motivational factors.

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“…This agreed with other studies. [15][16][17][18] There are some limitations to this study. First, the cross-sectional study design does not eliminate potential causal relationships between the motivational factors of medical students and Radiology career choice.…”

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The Effect of Gender on Choosing Radiology as a Career Among Medical Students and Interns in Saudi Arabia.

Talal¹,

Sarah²,

Amnah³

et al. 2016

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“…vitally important to understand and improve, as diversity is believed to be a key element to improving equal access to health care in the United States [2,10,11,12].…”

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“…The presence of strong relatable role models is commonly identified as a crucial element in the specialty choices of medical students [12,13,14,15]. Studies in multiple medical specialties including radiology have shown that women, more so than their male counterparts, were found to rate role models as highly valuable resources for the selection of career specialties [12,13,14].…”

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“…Studies in multiple medical specialties including radiology have shown that women, more so than their male counterparts, were found to rate role models as highly valuable resources for the selection of career specialties [12,13,14]. Some authors have suggested that it is the lack of visible female role models in male gendered specialties that makes it difficult for female medical students to visualize themselves in those professions [7,8].…”

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A Mentorship and Networking Group for Women in Radiology

Ladd

Bonaminio

Gonda

et al. 2017

Journal of the American College of Radiology

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THE PROBLEM: TOO FEW FEMALE ROLE MODELS IN RADIOLOGYWomen are underrepresented in radiology [1]. A 2014 study found that the percentages of female practicing radiologists (23.5%), academic radiology faculty (26.1%), radiology residents (27.8%), and radiology applicants (28.1%) were all substantially below the percentage of women graduating from medical school in the United States (48.3%) [2]. Additionally, of the twenty largest residency training programs in the US, radiology ranked ninth for overall size but only seventeenth for female representation [2].As the medical field has become increasingly diverse, radiology has failed to keep pace.Over the last four decades, the percentage of female radiologists in the United States has held steady in the low to mid-20s [2,3,4,5]. Many studies have been conducted in recent years to better understand the forces behind the apparent gendering of certain medical specialties, a term which reflects the overwhelming predominance of women in some specialties such as pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology and men in others such as radiology and orthopedic surgery [6,7,8].Although these studies failed to reveal conclusive evidence as to the causes, they managed to uncover potential contributing factors, such as the presence of gender bias in certain specialties, cultural differences between the sexes, and the presence or lack of identifiable role models in different fields [6,7,8,9]. The forces that produce gender disparity in medical specialties are

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Women in pediatric radiology

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2010

Pediatr Radiol

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Female Medical Students' Interest in Radiology Careers

Cited by 83 publications

References 34 publications

The Effect of Gender on Choosing Radiology as a Career Among Medical Students and Interns in Saudi Arabia.

The Effect of Gender on Choosing Radiology as a Career Among Medical Students and Interns in Saudi Arabia.

A Mentorship and Networking Group for Women in Radiology

Women in pediatric radiology

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